From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16043 invoked by uid 1002); 10 Jan 2003 23:08:48 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 364 invoked from network); 10 Jan 2003 23:08:48 -0000 From: William Kenworthy To: Kai =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Gro=DFjohann?= Cc: gentoo-dev List , gentoo-user List In-Reply-To: <84lm1s4omr.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> References: <33052.192.168.0.8.1041817268.squirrel@webmail.codewordt.co.uk> <200301060054.29991.absinthe@pobox.com> <84lm1s4omr.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 11 Jan 2003 07:05:36 +0800 Message-Id: <1042239936.31293.3.camel@rattus.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: etc-update & ._cfg* files: major issue with gentoo? X-Archives-Salt: 5779260b-84d8-4d79-abf2-2e80e02167be X-Archives-Hash: cacc20c2daaa691694bee882eaccfe18 diffs from what? what happens if the user has made changes outside of the way gentoo has configured the system? I found this was a major disavantage of Mandrake, as it had to assume that the user didnt fiddle with the files - if you configured it manually for whatever reason, the whole mandrake configuration system ended up broken. BillK On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 06:38, Kai Gro=DFjohann wrote: > Dylan Carlson writes: >=20 > > With regard to pointing out which changes have occurred between a relea= se,=20 > > I believe it should be left up to the user to view the release notes=20 > > supplied by the software in /usr/share/doc and make the appropriate=20 > > actions. Or hope for good comments in the config file... >=20 > Hm? Release notes... Yeah, that might produce some useful data. >=20 > But I still think it would be more convenient for the user if Gentoo > just produced the right diffs. > --=20 > Ambibibentists unite! >=20 >=20 > -- > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list >=20 >=20 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list